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Valentine’s Day, health policy nerd style

A small selection of tweets included in the #healthpolicyvalentines thread.

Do roses, chocolates and romantic cards for Valentine’s Day elicit nothing more than a stifled yawn from you?

May we recommend that you indulge this Valentine’s Day instead in an abundance of “Health Policy Valentines?”

Harvard health policy PhD student Emma Sandoe started this hilarious Twitter trend a few years ago.

“I was on my way home, it was about February 11th,” recalled Sandoe. “I thought about all of the funny jokes you could make about health policy and Valentine’s Day, started tweeting, and it caught on.”

Since that day, ardent lovers of health policy have used the hashtag “healthpolicyvalentines” to communicate their feelings about this topic.